I actually quite enjoyed Kitano's trilogy of 'creative destruction', but I'm really glad he returned to the yakuza genre. Outrage is pure Kitano-brand ultra-violence. All the characters have a brutal devotion to business and a sinister lack of emotion. The shallow yakuza politics, misplaced allegiances and savage betrayals give it more twists and turns than a Takeshi's Castle obstacle course.

I was thinking throughout that maybe there was something missing, which turned out…